CVE-2019-5005

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.4 on Windows. They allowed Denial of Service (application crash) via image data, because two bytes are written to the end of the allocated memory without judging whether this will cause corruption.

Affected products

Foxit Reader: before 9.4 — fixed in 9.4
Foxit PhantomPDF: before 9.4 — fixed in 9.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Foxit Reader 9.4; Foxit PhantomPDF 9.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php

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